Chapter twelve starts out with Jack in the hospital after his attack, he had to get a kneecap replacement. Abigail goes outside to call Len and asks him to meet her. The nurses at the hospital think something is going on between them because of the way she touches Len's hand. On the balcony near Jack's room, the smoke and talk about Len's wife who commited suicide years ago. Then they kiss. She finally leaves him and she's Lindsey and Jack in the room finally on good terms. As Susie watches this she realizes that her mother was never really happy, she wanted to teach but since Buckely was born she couldn't. She noticed now how Jack grew closer with the kids and she spread apart from all of them.